[Doug]

In other news, the leaders of Europe's biggest countries will gather in London tonight to discuss the crisis engulfing the model railway industry.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will join Italy's Romano Prodi and EU Commission boss Jose Manuel Barroso at a Downing Street summit hosted by Gordon Brown.

So in advance of their meeting the 2008 catalogues have been released. See the post below.

 

[Doug]

Thanks for those links.

Check out the Lima. South African re-releases.

The don't look anything different to the old models. Perhaps the motor has been updated. Anyway, I'm still happy about it.
Quite a bit of Australian stock in the Lima range too.

Jouef have some fantastic modern trains and autorails. The World Speed Record TGV is there too.

 

[Doug]

QUOTE (dbclass50 @ 29 Jan 2008, 18:10) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Looks like the coaches may have close coupling mech's. If these pics come from Hornby it shows that they have a habit of showing daylight through their models - a slightly different angle would probably look better, but less honest ?

Now, a question - I assume that these are 3.5mm/ft scale running on 16.5mm track, so does that make them broad gauge ? (if memory serves me SA is 3'6").

The couplings, from these photos, look like the original.

Yes, to model SA rail properly, or as near to the original as possible, you need HOm track that has a 12mm gauge.